Cheated at IIT JEE to be an IITian; got a lucky break!

I will take the liberty of remaining anonymous as this is a story I am not very proud of. It is my real-life experience about how I cheated at IIT JEE and the black-market tactics I used to become an IITian.

Here is a disclaimer (if cheaters are ever allowed one):

I had not planned on cheating when I entered the examination center. I had no chits with me and had no intention of doing what I did in the exam.

That said, I had not prepared for IIT JEE too. I was guilty of not managing my time more judiciously, even though a lot was on the stake.

When I entered the exam centre, I was wondering what I will do there and tried to prepare my dad for the disaster report that might have negative scores in it. With an intention to get it over with, I entered the exam hall early. To while away time, I observed the position of seats closely.

There were eight students who would sit at different angles from me. As I saw them, my attention got stuck on one of them who seemed to be geeky and studious enough to be a typical IITian.

That changed my game plan.

When instructors started distributing the paper, I noticed that there were ten sets. The way papers were distributed had a zig-zag but fixed pattern. I could not help but notice that if I received the paper from the fourth set, my studious neighbor would have received a question paper from the sixth set.

First, like a good student, I tried to check how many questions I could actually answer correctly. There were very few such questions. My eyes drifted to the question paper of my neighbor – at the question that seemed to have an exact shape and design as one of the questions in my QP. I also saw the answer that he had marked for the question. I copied his answers to as many questions as I could see in his booklet. It took me an hour to look at the questions while avoiding the prying eyes of four invigilators and a guest invigilator overlooking 40 candidates in a room.

I had been able to look at 4 out of 8 questions in Part 1 and 3 out of 4 in multiple-choice questions. Time was drifting away and I needed a quicker way to mark the right answers.

Hence, I used the data of the questions I already had to find the algorithm that had been used to jumble the questions in my paper and my neighbor’s paper. Now, I only had to look at the OMR sheet of my neighbour and could find where answer of a question in his paper should reflect in my paper.

To be sure, it was not an easy task to do. OMR sheets are colored purposely to confuse the human eye.

There were two papers in IIT JEE. Each had been divided into three sections – Physics, Chemistry and Maths. Each subject had been further sub-divided into four parts. Algorithms for each part were different. Cracking them seemed like a game, a challenge to me. As I cracked the algorithm of the first part, it did not take me much time to untangle others.

In both the papers, I kept following this tactic. By the time I came of the hall, my eyes were strained from glancing sideways. I was so mentally exhausted and drained that I fainted.

But all my black-market tactics worked and actually won me a seat at one of the Top 6 IITs. My All India Rank was good too and within Top 3500. I am a 5-pointer at IITs and I can see the efforts 9-10 pointers put to keep up with the difficulty levels here.

Perhaps, what I did was not correct. May be I was not right to take this seat, as a student who had worked hard for two long years for his IIT dream might have been denied a seat because of me. But whatever I did occurred spontaneously. It was not pre-planned. It is just a matter of perspective.

Most of my friends think that I am a genius, who cracked IIT and excelled at other extra-curricular activities at national-levels too. Others hold an opinion that I am what I am because of my parents and all those who contributed in bringing me up. I do not over-think such things.

I am happy to be where I am. I hope to forge some great friendships and a great study experience during my four years at IIT.

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I cheated from my partner’s computer screen in AIEEE after realizing almost 80% of questions were same but randomly arranged. I cracked the entrance and was getting admission in DTU. Left it because I didn’t want to do Engineering. You, my friend, are a genius! Intelligence applied makes life so easy. 😉

abhijeet

dude you owe this seat as much as any other IIT
throught out my engineering i belived in two types of work hardwork and smartwork
this is a smartwork
IITians are known for their innovation this is jst like that so be proud of it

Chandresh kanani

There is nothing wrong in cheating in exam.Because i think thats an art and you have it so be proud.

Aishwarya

You DESERVE to be an IITIAN!!!!!

Sid_the_slayer

U really think you cheated then you should not take admission into IIT. Why taken up one deserving and desirous seat. U r just trying to make urself convinced that u deserves IIT. but one thing really deserves is Claps for your smartness…..

Arjun kumar

You r really a genius dude.,
…everything is fair in love, war and AIEEE

kushagra

i did sumthng same in ma aipmt xam ….thr were 4 set nd i knew exact wich one of ma neibhour hs got d same set as mine…..i did watever i knew 100% correct nd rest in copied frm ma neibhour…he ws around 5 feets frm me nd still i ws able to recognise options he markd .HE SEEMS TO B STUDIOUS GUY….BUT UNFORTUNATELY I WSNT SELECTED COZ MAY B HE SEEMS TO METORIOUS BUT HE WS NOT….SUCH A BAD LUCK FR ME ND GUD LUCK FR U DUDE…ENJOY UR DAYS IN IIT…..STILL LOT HV TO BE DONE IN LYF :p 🙂

manoj

dude u r 5 pointer why u did not try it in IIT .

dhol(GENERAL)

yes! this is what i want to ask!! 😀

anonymous

coz iit paper z subjective..its not possible to cheat such long questions

AJ

Well , you robbed a place in IIT from most likely a hardworking student somewhere..well done .

aayush

u did wrong ,someone who studied hard to attain that seat is of no use ,but kya kare ?? duniya aisa he chalati hai!!!

Sai Prasad R M

Figuring out all that proves you’re a genius, and by the way, every candidate had the same opportunity, so it’s not cheating.

Zed Black

Smart but not intelligent. iits wants the smart, so you gave them a different kind of smart!

Vibodh Jadhav

why don”t you just go and die somewhere!!!people obsessed with iit”s will support not the people who folllow the honest path!!!

anonymous

As you mentioned, you currently hold the seat of some person who worked real hard and may have deserved the seat more than you do. So remember not to waste what you have obtained. Make a contribution to society or do something extra-ordinary but just don’t waste the opportunity you have got. That’s all I got to say.

Abhishek

Please tell me the algorithm you figured out.I know it will not be the same in my case but it may be something similar,so figuring it out may get easier if you share your’s.Please reply at your earliest.

AdamSmith2

Dude , I find your story nothing more than work of FICTION . If only you can tell the correlating algorithm (of any year of your choice) for even 2 different sets , will provide your story a base . As a fun fact i spent few days randomly trying to figure out such a correlation existence but found none 🙂 Almost every language that use random function , is not theoretically random but predictable but without knowing specs of system or time of generation , it is impossible . If you think i am wrong , accept the challenge and go ahead 🙂

अम्बर

Ha ha ha you are trying to get that trick :’)

AdamSmith2

lol no i m not trying to get that trick bcoz (1)I already cracked into IIT (2)The Trick doesn’t exists 😉

House

Doesnt really make a difference. Being a decent student at an NIT leads to a better career than being a 5 pointer at IIT.

Brother your story is as same as mine Now I am an iitian can you plz say how faced problems and how to overcome them Plz tell me now I don’t have any body to share this problem tears rolling down plz give me an answer how i should cope up with my academics please now I just joined an iit plz tell me